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Former death camp secretary who skipped trial is caught after police launched manhunt

The 96-year-old woman widely named in German media as Irmgard Furchner was to stand trial today for assisting in the murder of 11,000 prisoners at the Nazi-German Stutthof camp during WWII. PAP/ Federal Archives

The 96-year-old woman who went on the run after getting in a taxi to stand trial for WWII war crimes has been captured. 

Was ancient ‘Royal Curse’ behind mysterious deaths of researchers who uncovered long lost chamber of kings?

The discovery 70 years ago this month of the 15th-century remains, as well as the earlier discovery of pewter containers holding the heart and innards of 17th-century Władysław IV, were met with wild celebrations and dubbed the find of the century. But then people started dying…

Harrowing letters from WWII concentration camp children reveal deprivation and starvation

While examining documents in private collections, historians from the Museum of Polish Children - Victims of Totalitarianism found eight letters written by children who had been imprisoned in what was called the Preventive Camp for Young Poles of the Security Police in Łódź (Jugendverwahrlager der Sicherheitspolizei in Litzmannstadt).

‘Underappreciated’ poet Norwid honoured on his 200th birthday with events across the country

A friend of Chopin and an influence on 20th century Polish writers and musical artists, Cyprian Kamil Norwid is often considered the fourth national ‘bard’ or ‘poet-prophet’ after the big three of Adam Mickiewicz, Julisz Słowacki and Zygmunt Krasiński.

New centre dedicated to Polish Enigma codebreakers opens in Poznań

The main focus of the centre is the story of Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki who influenced the fate of the world by being the first to break the German cipher machine code in 1932.

Horror experience of women subjected to bestial experiments at WWII concentration camp retold in powerful new exhibition

Entitled ‘The girls from KL Ravensbrück’, the bilingual exhibition juxtaposes two worlds, that of youthful freedom before the war and the hell of the camp through a display of 4,000 personal objects from the women collected over several years by the museum.

Holocaust survivor tracks down family of Polish woman who saved her from WWII death camp with the help of Facebook

Aviva Landau was due to visit Poland from Israel this month for the first time since leaving just after the end of the war and was keen to contact the family of her rescuer she remembers as Anna. But all she had was an old address scribbled on the back of an envelope…

New Netflix production based on shocking true life story of secret police operation to track down homosexuals

VIDEO: ‘Operation Hyacinth’ is named after the police operation of the same name which was conducted by the Communist Citizen’s Militia (MO) between 1985-87 and led to information being collected on around 11,000 gay men and a record of their sexuality being kept on police record.

Harrowing artefacts of those exiled to Siberia, including a child's 'dead teddy bear', go on show at new museum in Białystok

Opening to coincide with the anniversary of Stalin’s invasion of Poland on 17 September, 1939, the Sybir Memorial Museum is the largest and most important institution dealing with deportations to Russia and later the Soviet Union.

Monument to Polish WWII victims to be erected in Berlin – dep FM

A monument dedicated to the Polish victims of German Nazi occupation during World War Two will be built in the German capital, Poland's deputy foreign Minister announced on Wednesday.

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